'China hits US with sanctions, drone export curbs ahead of Xi visit... China’s Ministry of Commerce announced it was sanctioning seven American entities, including a biotech and a resource analytics firm, and tightening export controls on drones to the US.' Hahahhahahahahaha.

This is the way.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

one thing i find really important is being able to criticize the media you love for being gross, problematic, outdated, or just plain offensive while still appreciating what makes it good. it's a good way to fight against the puritanical desire to have all your media Free From Sin

Disney claims that video creation with genai will be the "future" and "imagine any world you want" and yet when I dreamed of a more beautiful world and asked chatgpt to re-edit all marvel films in the same style as ang Lee's hulk film they sent men to my house to shoot me with guns. Damn liars.

A UK politician's willingness to invoke WWII in an argument is inversely proportional to their understanding of what actually happened in WWII.

It is worth noting that the writer of that HWA newsletter telling people to embrace AI, has an AI based coaching app they are selling

This sucks, but it is worth remembering DA fully embraced genAI and brought with it so many users who have been proven to have extremely low media literacy thanks to AI use, and thus DA has become a honeypot for these kind of VERY low effort scams!

Hypnotic-Ink@hypnoink198.bsky.social · 7h ago

They get dumber and more obvious every year I swear

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

If progressives lose, it’s bad for progressives. If progressives win, though, it’s also bad for progressives. Gotta love narrative setting.

Politico@politico.com · 12h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Fuck, the man is an idiot! GPEW is obviously going to cop both genuine and spurious complaints over being overtly anti-Zionist; anyone in their right mind would be condemning the fuck out of Nazi Josh specifically to highlight that they think antisemitism is very bad and different from anti-Zionism!

Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 8h ago

Hello I'm an idiot

We have higher rates of kidney and bladder problems compared to the general population, and historically rather than address this, medicine has chosen to either ignore it or blame our healthcare. Nope, turns out marginalization just destroys bodies. Quelle surprise.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 6h ago

Here's my Cosmo piece about how segregated bathrooms have impacted my own health www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...

Apparently Boots Theory is in the discourse again and I just want to say my pair of really good hiking boots which cost me 50 dollars have now outlasted about 3 pairs of 15 dollar shoes despite me doing far heavier labour in them p. regularly so like. no its just true. its just unironically true.

You can run the entire Windows 7 (32bit) Operating System in less memory than what the single web page "bsky.app" uses when running in a single Chrome browser tab. If you rendered BlueSky threads into PDF documents, those PDF documents would require less memory to display than what "bsky.app" uses.

Julia@foxgrrl.bsky.social · 2d ago

The combined Intel IA-32&64 Software Developer's Manual [ 325462-092-sdm-vol-1-2abcd-3abcd-4.pdf ] is 5363 pages long & Chrome only needs 426MB of RAM to display it in a tab Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" www.gutenberg.org/files/2600/2... only requires 387MB to display in a tab "bsky.app" needs 1GB

Just a reminder: One billion is one million times bigger than one thousand. That's a ratio of 0.000001% vs. 0.999999% or the difference between one second of time, and about eleven and a half days of time.

Despite all the accusations of crimes and cover-ups, the Trump admin has never actually prosecuted or jailed anyone. The supposed stolen 2020 election, Jan 6 deep state, Dr Fauci, etc. All of its is just theater for the base, revving them up. In the end, will undermine faith in gov and institutions.

this is what they took from you

Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w ago

A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

Lelouch-ass logic with the difference that, obviously, Lelouch's stupid fucking plan doesn't work and this story seems to think 'to achieve world peace I'll invade and annex the shit out of everything' is perfectly sound logic.

If you’d like to read the report exposing the anti trans people ‘Gender Critical’ movement in the UK - which sadly Amnesty took down after bottling it due to legal threats from the Edinburgh Funder - here it is. Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf - Google Drive drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsa...

Can you imagine spending this much money to make a mediocre centrist lose?

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 13h ago

Unfathomable

FDR put American citizens in concentration camps and passed the New Deal specifically because he was worried the people would overthrow capitalism if he didn't. We shouldn't be wanting "a return to FDR."

i,m transgrbderizing you. with my Mind

Boy, putting the MAHA people in charge and slashing the budget for food inspectors and food contamination investigators is really working out for all of us, isn't it?

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 20h ago

Chipotle said on Tuesday it had removed jalapenos from all its restaurants in Minnesota and other locations that received the product after identifying the peppers as a potential common ingredient in a salmonella outbreak under investigation by ​public health authorities.

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

It’s always nice to see Eric Adams get welcomed with warm words like “you belong in prison”

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d ago

“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...

This is the karmic balance for Atelier Karia letting you be fat.

AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social · 2d ago

Atelier Ryza “AI chat RPG” announced. Developers promise “no AI-generated artwork” and fair revenue sharing with voice actors https://automaton-media.com/en/news/atelier-ryza-ai-chat-rpg-announced-developers-promise-no-ai-generated-artwork-and-fair-revenue-sharing-with-voice-actors/